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Mexico-based Nigerian fraudster Matthew Akande nabbed in London, extradited to U.S. over $8.1 million benefits scheme

An indictment unsealed Wednesday said Matthew Abiodun Akande led a syndicate that used the personal information of Americans to request millions in social benefits.

Authorities in the United States have arrested and charged a Nigerian national who was accused of defrauding Americans in a sprawling benefits scheme.

An indictment unsealed Wednesday said Matthew Abiodun Akande, based in Mexico, was the ringleader of a syndicate that used the personal identifying information of Americans to request about $8.1 million in social benefits from the government. At least $1.3 million was received by Mr Akande, who appeared preliminarily in a Boston, Massachusetts, court on Wednesday.

Mr Akande, 36, was arrested at London Heathrow on October 24, 2024, and his extradition was completed with his transfer to Boston on March 5, U.S. prosecutors said.

He used “fraudulent phishing emails to be sent to five Massachusetts tax preparation firms,” prosecutors said.

“The emails purported to be from a prospective client seeking the tax preparation firms’ services but in truth were used to trick the firms into ing remote access trojan malicious software (RAT malware), including malware known as Warzone RAT,” they added.

Officials said Mr Akande “allegedly used the RAT malware to obtain the PII and prior year tax information of the tax preparation firms’ clients.”

Stolen funds were transferred to Mexico, with authorities identifying at least “1,000 fraudulent tax returns seeking over $8.1 million in fraudulent tax refunds over approximately five years,” adding that the fraudsters “successfully obtained over $1.3 million in fraudulent tax refunds.”

His co-conspirator, Kehinde Oyetunji, another Nigerian national, had previously been charged and sentenced to prison over his role in the vast scheme, which authorities said was carried out between June 2016 and June 2021.

Mr Akande faces several counts of stealing government funds and identity theft. He was summarily remanded in prison pending the appointment of an attorney and trial.

The case comes amid a flurry of high-profile prosecutions of internet fraudsters of Nigerian origin in the U.S. A senior Nigerian politician and a monarch were charged in separate fraud cases in recent weeks.

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Igbo people eeeh

He is a Nigerian

😂

He will soon be chopping roast pork once a year.

Abike Dabiri your attention is urgently needed here.
Pls tell us more about this fellow.

Good west frauder and east drugie

Set awon Agba Baller
Money na Water

This one did not graduate from Yekini Amoda Ogunlere school of yahooing

This one's don finish Nigeria outside

Na dem dem

Morbeta11:


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Hmmmmmmm

Make I park here first

Better than mining skulls like his brothers down west

Future emilokan president

Honest work is still the best

Hehehehe that tribe and fraudulent act are like 5 and 6

Abiodun Akande
Akayikwaa mu ana

Tomorrow this idiot will come back home to become an oba in Yoruba land,later a governor then the Yoruba people we start pushing for him to become the president.
Nigeria is a evil forest

Names checkers association of nigeria will be disappointed

Name checkers will be disappointed!!!!!!!!

No Yoruba will justify for this crime

The

Crime know no race or tribe

Yoruba ronus exporting their trademark across the Atlantic

Ronu competing with Ekpa brothers

Only we northerners get clean sheet abroad. We worship Allah not money

HUSPUPPI PRISON FOOD ATTRACTING OUR SW BROTHERS TO US PRISON LIKE FLIES.


EXTRADITION GALLORE




THIS IS THE EXTRADITION SEASON.

Oh, Nigerians 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

As for the primitive tribalists jumping up and down and displaying politically motivated divisive rhetoric, note that when he was charged, he was charged as a 'Nigerian' and not by his ethnicity so if you like continue displaying your backward mentality on this forum.

Ok

Thes people are the reason the Nigerian port is worthless. They leave their SW region, go abroad and disgrace Nigeria.

I can't believe I share same country as these people. Tueeh!